Ranked by total number of employees in B.C. in 2023
Published in BIV print edition on October 30, 2023. Sources: Interviews with below companies and BIV research. Other companies may have ranked but information was not available or provided.
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| Rank '23 | Company | Top local executive(s) | Partial list of products | Year founded | No. of worldwide staff '23/'22 | No. of B.C. staff '23/'22 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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1
|
Canfor Corp |
Don Kayne, president and CEO |
Manufacturer of low-carbon forest products, including lumber, pulp, paper, wood pellets and green energy |
1938 |
7,433 |
2,869 (1) |
|
2
|
West Fraser Timber Co Ltd |
Raymond Ferris, president and CEO |
Diversified wood products company producing lumber, laminated veneer lumber and more |
1955 |
11,249 (3) |
2,500 |
|
3
|
Paper Excellence |
Stewart Gibson, COO |
Pulp and paper manufacturing |
2007 |
NP |
2,115 |
|
4
|
Mosaic Forest Management Corp |
Rob Gough, president and CEO |
Sustainable forest stewardship, managing private timberlands and public forest tenures in Coastal British Columbia for more than a century |
1997 |
NP |
2,000 |
|
5
|
Western Forest Products Inc |
Steven Hofer, president and CEO, Stephen Williams, executive vice-president and CFO |
Timber harvesting, reforestation, forest management, sawmilling logs into lumber and wood chips and value-added lumber remanufacturing |
2004 |
2,000 |
1,740 (5) |
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